He is best known as a proponent of slow cinema, but perhaps no other local filmmaker today has been as prolific and devoted as Lav Diaz in examining the Filipino condition. 'For the Filipino people, it's for them, for their struggle,' he once enthused in a speech accepting an international award in 2014 for the film 'Mula sa Kung Ano ang Noon' (From What is Before), which, for five hours and 38 minutes, told of the mysterious happenings in a barrio in 1972, the year martial law was declared in the country.

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